The students attending the Campus Kids Summer program are having so much fun! We have been very active not only on campus, but by going on lots of enjoyable field trips!! One of the goals of Campus Kids is to offer our students many new opportunities to experience different activities. We are always searching for new places to take the students to expose them to new educational, cultural, and athletic opportunities. To meet this goal, we have traveled to lots of places not only in Cedar Springs, but in our surrounding communities. For example, some of our students have had a golf lesson at Cedar Chase, experienced a ninja obstacle course at Rockfit Ninja Gym, fed the fish at the Paris Park Fish Hatchery, picked berries at Krupp’s Farm, watched a baseball game at the Whitecaps, and shot bows and arrows at WM Archery Center in Rockford. In all, we will go on 36 field trips this summer!! Sometimes we take everyone, and other times we take a smaller group of students. One of the other goals of the Campus Kids program is to spend a large portion of the day outside. This summer, we have spent approximately 60% of the day outside enjoying the beautiful weather. Some of the activities we have done when we are on campus have ranged from crafting to STEM activities to challenge our minds, walking/running club, building and playing on a giant slip and slide, growing vegetables in the Community Garden, journaling, playing charades, and preparing and eating healthy snacks. We have also done some community service work by picking up trash on campus.

Campus Kids – Before and After School Care

Campus Kids is a State Licensed Day Care program and we are preparing for school start. We offer Before and After School Care throughout the school year. Campus Kids opens at 6:00am at both Cedar Trails Elementary and Beach Elementary. We do activities throughout the morning, and then serve a light breakfast. We dismiss the students in time to get to their class at either Cedar Trails, Beach, or Cedar View. Cedar Trails students may attend Campus Kids at their school, while Beach and

Cedar View students may attend at Beach. In the afternoons, Campus Kids opens at 3:30pm for students at the same locations. A healthy snack is served and homework help and fun activities are offered until 6:00pm. To enroll, please complete and return a registration packet before September 1, 2016 to reserve your spot. Packets may be picked up at Cedar Trails, or they can be found on-line at csredhawks.org. There is a $20 annual registration fee for one child or $35 for a family. Rates are $8.00 a morning or afternoon, or $15 for both on the same day. Parents complete a schedule of days that they need care, and they are billed a month in advance for services.

For an additional charge, we also offer care on early release days and on snow days for pre-registered children. Please call (616) 696-1716 or email campus.kids@csredhawks.org for additional information.

This fall, the students enrolled in the Campus Kids program have been enjoying the nice weather and doing lots of fun activities. Campus Kids is the Before and After school program located in Cedar Trails Elementary School.

Campus Kids enjoying Zumba.

We have expanded our morning programming to include Arts and Crafts, gym time, group games, and Just Dance videos. The children are enjoying the morning structure, and look forward to what each morning will bring!

Campus Kids has enjoyed learning how to do Yoga in the afternoons. Michelle, from Moxie Fitness, has been coming on Thursdays to teach a Beginner Class. All of the students were given the opportunity to try the exercise, and a number of them signed up to continue on in a more advanced class. The students are learning poses to help with flexibility, strength, concentration, posture, and breathing. It is our goal to continue to expose our students to a large variety of new activities. Zumba is a favorite activity for many of our students, and that is offered once a month on Early Release Fridays.

Campus Kids enjoy learning how to serve, set, and spike the ball from the Girl’s Varsity Volleyball Team.

We have also received a visit from the Girl’s Varsity Volleyball Team this fall! The team came over and showed everyone how to serve, set, and spike the ball. It was a very fun filled afternoon for everyone.

Campus Kids is looking forward to winter and doing many winter activities and craft projects, while also learning about various customs around the world.

For additional information about Campus Kids, please call us at 616 696-1716.

Campus Kids, the Before and After School Program, explored their senses on a recent snow day with many fun, ooey, gooey activities!!! Sensory tubs were set up so we could have a lot of messy fun!! We made tie-dye pictures with shaving cream and liquid watercolor paints and then played in the shaving cream, made ooblick out of cornstarch and water, and had a great time in the clean mud made out of Ivory Soap!! The fantastic afternoon was enjoyed by everyone. We can’t wait to do it again!

We are also doing “Random Acts of Kindness” throughout the month! We have had discussions about helping others and about being nice at home and at school. When a child does an “act of kindness”, they write it on a plastic flower and add it to our “Garden of Kindness” on the wall. Our Garden grows everyday with many kind acts!

One of the many after school activities is called “Everyone Reads”. In this program, an older child from Beach or Cedar View is paired up with a child from Cedar Trails, and they read books together. The older children encourage the younger children to read out loud, and they help them with the words. It has been great to see the interactions!

Summer is (hopefully!) right around the corner, and Campus Kids will be hosting a Summer Camp for all who are interested. We will be doing lots of fun, creative, and educational activities every day of the week. These may include gardening, sports, music, arts and crafts, tutoring assistance in various subjects, sensory fun, computer use, experiments, a walking/running club, etc. We also are looking forward to several field trips throughout the summer.

The cost of Summer Camp is $27 a day or $125 a week (for 5 days). There is a $10 a day discount for the second child if attending 4 to 5 days a week. Campus Kids Summer Camp will be closed June 30 through July 4. If you are interested in signing your child up for Summer Camp, please call Teresea Schlump, Child Care Director at (616) 696-1716 for more information.

Ten players from the Cedar Springs High School Lady Red Hawks Volleyball team visited the Campus Kids Before and After School Care program on October 25. They worked with the students on hitting, setting, and serving. They also had a contest for serving accuracy.

Campus Kids Director Teresea Schlump was especially pleased with how the visit went. “The Before and After School program is promoting new experiences for the children, and this is just one great example,” she said.

Occasionally, adverse weather conditions or other emergency situations may make it necessary to cancel school, delay the start of school, send students home early or run buses on main/paved roads only. When these situations occur, notice will be communicated to WOOD TV 8, WXMI TV 17, and WZZM TV 13 through the Grand Rapids Area Information Line (GRAIL) to all subscribing area media. GRAIL stations include:

Individuals can also call our automated phone system at (616) 696-1204, (press option 1) for cancellation and delay updates.

When school evening activities are canceled, this cancellation also includes all clubs, organizations and extra-curricular events held on campus and scheduled for that evening.

In the event of a 2-hour delay, students will be picked up by the bus approximately 2 hours later than their routine pick-up time. Morning Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) and morning preschool classes will be cancelled.

Campus Kids will be open on days that school is closed and / or delayed unless otherwise noted in school closing announcements.

Buses will not transport students to Kent Career and Technical Center for 1st session when a school delay or cancellation is issued. Students will be given a weather-related absence at KC/TC when we are officially not transporting them. Students who choose to drive personal vehicles to KC/TC on school delays or cancellations assume responsibility for their decision.

We are currently accepting registrations for Before and After School Care. We are located in Cedar Trails Elementary on the Cedar Springs School campus. We are open Monday through Friday from 6:00am to 8:30am and 3:30pm to 6:00pm beginning Monday, September 3, 2013

The cost is $8.00 for Before School care and $8.00 for After School care or $15 a day if you need to use both before and after school care.

Breakfast and an afternoon snack are included. The children will enjoy arts and crafts projects, homework assistance, enrichment activities, outdoor play, gym time, peer interaction, etc.

There is a registration fee of $20 for one child or $35 for a family.

For an additional charge, we also offer care on early release days and on snow days for pre-registered children.